By Peter Westwood

In this PowerPoint I will be looking at the ideas which I had for my movie trailer and the reason why I chose them. I will also be looking ideas which I didn't use and the reasons why I didn't chose them.

The genre which i chose for my film was horror, the reason why i chose this is that a trailer for a horror movie would be easy to replicate and so would the conventions of a horror film, also this would be a lot easier of a genre to do compared to say action or a romance film.

The locations in which I have chosen for my movie trailer are my school and a woodland area near my house, the reason why I have chosen these locations are that they were easy to find and easy for me to replicate any scenes as a woodland area adds towards the conventions of the horror film eg films like The Blair Witch Project and Cabin Fever have used woodland area for there films.

The reason why I chose the specific profiles for my characters for example making Samantha (Imogen) the lonely and distant character and making Ryan (Scott) the manipulative and evil character is because I felt that I had to add uniqueness to every character and just make them different so they were able to appeal more to my target audience.

My target audience for this film will be 15-30, the reason why I chose this is that horror films will attract more to this target audience than any other audience. It is also attached to both genres but is attracted to more boys than girls so has a 60-40 split.

I will follow the typical conventions which are used in a horror film as the use of using a forest is something you would normally see in a horror film. Also the use of a psychotic killer is something which is typically seen in a horror film as well.

In this PowerPoint I will also show 3 different ideas which I had for my movie trailer. I will also be looking at the reason why I decided the use my original idea and why I didn't use the other ideas. Two of these are of the horror genre and one of these is of the action/thriller genre.

6 teenage students go on a camping trip in the forest which ends up in deadly consequences with a psychopathic killer on the loose. This is the idea which I decided the use for my movie trailer, the reason why chose to do this as it was the trailer which most appealed to me in a practical sense and it would be an easy idea to produce.

6 teenage students visit an abandoned school in the middle of the night but it is unknown what spirits lay around in this place. This is another idea which I had but I didn't decide to do this as I thought that the use of using a woodland area was a better idea.

A teenage student who is been bullied is considering attempting suicide after the misery which has affected him recently eg: family events and been bullied. This is another movie idea I had which is completely different to the genre of my other trailer ideas but it was an idea which appealed to me. The reason why I chose not to do this idea is I felt that it would be too complicated to do compared to my other movie ideas.